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Galactic Quest + Atlantic Quest (DS) Status: Stopped playing - Got Bored I started playing this game on Sunday 17 March, 2024 // I stopped playing this game on: Sunday 24 March, 2024
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March 24, 2024 01:19:19 PM
This is a 2-in-1 game collection of match 3 games that, as far as I've played each, are exactly the same in terms of gameplay even though the story and art is completely different. The one notable thing about these is that it's a match-3 game that supports three different types of matching which you can switch between whenever you want. It's interesting because it means it's a lot harder to get stuck, and that you have to think in a few more ways in order to identify matches and such. The three ways to match are: 1. Typical swap two tiles to make a match 2. Connect three tiles orthogonally to make a match 3. Tap on group of tiles that are orthogonally adjacent to each other to make a match. There's overlap between the three modes, of course, and in the 3rd one matches don't happen automatically when new tiles drop to fill in the space of tiles that were removed due to a match. So, there's an interesting effect that happens when you've made a match in the 3rd mode and then switch to the 1st mode! You can get a lot of tiles to auto-match and disappear if you've left the board with lots of groups of 3-in-a-row. Other than this little wrinkle, which was interesting to be fair, there wasn't much else to note in either game. There's trophies and interstitial puzzles to play between every 10 or so match-3 levels, but it's pretty light on everything.

Galactic Quest + Atlantic Quest (DS)